Really great video in every aspect! Thank you. It's a shame UA-cam doesn't support channels like this one but I hope you keep doing your thing, I surely appreciate it!
i call my abode the house of a thousand melodies: old disc and cylinder musical boxes, pre wwI player piano, roller organs, victrola phonograph for 78s and modern turntable for 33s. youtube provides rehearsal tracks for choir. i am officially crazy for analog.
My major hurdle isn't that I have difficulty sitting and appreciating a classical piece. It's that I have a hard time selecting a recording I want to give my attention to. It's a problem of curation. Say I want to listen to Bruce Springsteen. I type his name into Spotify and I can listen to the exact recordings of his 1982 album Nebraska. Say instead I want to listen to a piece from Chopin, I type his name into Spotify and thousands of different recordings from hundreds of orchestras and conductors using different arrangements and recording equipment, and there's live or there's in studio... It's a boggling selection. For the lay person who just wants to jump in feet first, there's precious little direction. You may come across a song you like by Debussy or Bartok or Vivaldi, but have no idea if you're interested in other performances from the Orchestra you've listened to. I'm sure there must be trusted individuals in the field whose opinions are well-regarded and point the initiated in the direction of the best recordings and such... But that is incredibly opaque to the likes of the novice. I think the audience for classical music is much larger than people would assume. It just lacks a commonly accepted guided entry point. Something beginner friendly, clearly denoted, and even... Visually consistent.
I had the very same problem when I started listening to classical music. One thing I found that eliminated a lot of the distracting options was by looking at versions of pieces that were released by record labels I liked. It took a bit of trial and error, but once I narrowed things down to labels like Deutsche Grammophon or Decca I was able to consistently find recordings I liked by composers I wanted to try. Or you could try the same experiment with conductors or ensembles. I recently wanted to try out some Scriabin, so I looked for a Deutsche Grammophon recording and found one that I knew I would enjoy. I think the key is just to try stuff out and not be afraid of making a “mistake”.
It's very interesting the psychology of tastes, how our mind has to get used to new styles, of art for example, and then it can understand it and enjoy it
i love listening to it in ocncert halls and live and actively. of course i grew up playing the violin, was in the orchestra, played lots of great pieces, and also learned so many i did not get to play . i tis truly wonderful
My introduction to classical music was by simply listening to music from movies I love (especially composed by John Williams and Ennio Morricone). And for gamers I suggest the OST from the Soulsbourne games.
If you like John Williams you’ll love Gustav Holst as John stole most of his music for Star Wars lol I recommend The Planets especially the track Jupiter :)
For music in general, I think the best time to listen to classical music is in a car, over long drives. Especially when you are not the driver. Because this is the easiest way to listen to classical music actively. Because you are just sitting in the car, doing nothing. Is there a reason not to turn on the music?
I can't listen to classical music in the background while I work or do other tasks where I need to focus. I find classical music too distracting, demanding my undivided attention. I can, however, listen to jazz of all types, including bebop, hardbop, funk and fusion while I work. I can also have certain types of electronic music as background music, especially if it's sequence driven, ie. Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, etc. When it comes to sitting down in front of my speakers and devoting an hour or more to listening, while doing nothing else, it's 100% classical, baroque, romantic and minimalistic, ie. Philip Glass. To my ears and taste, classiclal music demands my complete attention in order to reap the emotional and intellectual benefits.
I'm not a violin player but i believe that is the baroque bow hold, or maybe sometimes players adjust their hold because of injuries; perhaps someone can clarify that.
@@bentoaican I base this on the fact I started playing violin ag age 4 and played all the way through college. including being in the University symphony orchestra as well as being at Interlochen. so i didn't come up with that out of nowhere ;)
@@bentoaican there is no musical time period way to hold a bow. I mean just look at the 4-5 other violn players. they are all holding the bow frog not almost 1/4 of the way into the bow. i played music from Rennasaicne all thew ay to modern and not I nor any other person i ever seen play it ever held it there.
Who cares how holding it… in that small excerpt we can hear that she can play her instrument and play it well. She could be holding it between her teeth if she prefers. People like her, who think differently, makes things evolve rather than being told how to do something and never ask questions. Sheep and leaders…
Really great video in every aspect! Thank you. It's a shame UA-cam doesn't support channels like this one but I hope you keep doing your thing, I surely appreciate it!
Thank you, appreciated.
I appreciate how u talk about a right way to listen, passive listening of classic music rly pisses me off, thank u for ur job)
i call my abode the house of a thousand melodies: old disc and cylinder musical boxes, pre wwI player piano, roller organs, victrola phonograph for 78s and modern turntable for 33s. youtube provides rehearsal tracks for choir. i am officially crazy for analog.
My major hurdle isn't that I have difficulty sitting and appreciating a classical piece. It's that I have a hard time selecting a recording I want to give my attention to. It's a problem of curation.
Say I want to listen to Bruce Springsteen. I type his name into Spotify and I can listen to the exact recordings of his 1982 album Nebraska.
Say instead I want to listen to a piece from Chopin, I type his name into Spotify and thousands of different recordings from hundreds of orchestras and conductors using different arrangements and recording equipment, and there's live or there's in studio... It's a boggling selection.
For the lay person who just wants to jump in feet first, there's precious little direction. You may come across a song you like by Debussy or Bartok or Vivaldi, but have no idea if you're interested in other performances from the Orchestra you've listened to.
I'm sure there must be trusted individuals in the field whose opinions are well-regarded and point the initiated in the direction of the best recordings and such... But that is incredibly opaque to the likes of the novice.
I think the audience for classical music is much larger than people would assume. It just lacks a commonly accepted guided entry point. Something beginner friendly, clearly denoted, and even... Visually consistent.
I had the very same problem when I started listening to classical music. One thing I found that eliminated a lot of the distracting options was by looking at versions of pieces that were released by record labels I liked. It took a bit of trial and error, but once I narrowed things down to labels like Deutsche Grammophon or Decca I was able to consistently find recordings I liked by composers I wanted to try.
Or you could try the same experiment with conductors or ensembles.
I recently wanted to try out some Scriabin, so I looked for a Deutsche Grammophon recording and found one that I knew I would enjoy.
I think the key is just to try stuff out and not be afraid of making a “mistake”.
It's very interesting the psychology of tastes, how our mind has to get used to new styles, of art for example, and then it can understand it and enjoy it
It is amazing the more i hear some classical music i end up hearing something i did not hear at first
“2022 ADHD” - perfect!
Great video, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Fantastic vid!
Great tips!
Thanks!
Different place than where I thought you were going to go, but cool.
Informative video. What's the title of the piece played at 4:40?
It's the first movement of Tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto
I listened to the whole of beethoven's 9th at my 4th attempt only. Watched Figarro in some 5 chunks.
i love listening to it in ocncert halls and live and actively. of course i grew up playing the violin, was in the orchestra, played lots of great pieces, and also learned so many i did not get to play . i tis truly wonderful
Good video! Also you used Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto 1 which was the first concerto I was able to coherently follow along!
My introduction to classical music was by simply listening to music from movies I love (especially composed by John Williams and Ennio Morricone). And for gamers I suggest the OST from the Soulsbourne games.
If you like John Williams you’ll love Gustav Holst as John stole most of his music for Star Wars lol I recommend The Planets especially the track Jupiter :)
Dang, this is a great video... Hope UA-cam decides to share this 😐🙏
For music in general, I think the best time to listen to classical music is in a car, over long drives. Especially when you are not the driver. Because this is the easiest way to listen to classical music actively. Because you are just sitting in the car, doing nothing. Is there a reason not to turn on the music?
It’s good for working too in the office as there’s no lyrics to distract you, at least in my opinion.
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I can't listen to classical music in the background while I work or do other tasks where I need to focus. I find classical music too distracting, demanding my undivided attention.
I can, however, listen to jazz of all types, including bebop, hardbop, funk and fusion while I work. I can also have certain types of electronic music as background music, especially if it's sequence driven, ie. Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, etc.
When it comes to sitting down in front of my speakers and devoting an hour or more to listening, while doing nothing else, it's 100% classical, baroque, romantic and minimalistic, ie. Philip Glass.
To my ears and taste, classiclal music demands my complete attention in order to reap the emotional and intellectual benefits.
that woman playing vivaldi on her viiolin at 4 minutes is holding her bow completely wrong. wtf
I'm not a violin player but i believe that is the baroque bow hold, or maybe sometimes players adjust their hold because of injuries; perhaps someone can clarify that.
@@bentoaican I base this on the fact I started playing violin ag age 4 and played all the way through college. including being in the University symphony orchestra as well as being at Interlochen. so i didn't come up with that out of nowhere ;)
@@Johnadams20760 so that isn't the baroque bow hold then?
@@bentoaican there is no musical time period way to hold a bow. I mean just look at the 4-5 other violn players. they are all holding the bow frog not almost 1/4 of the way into the bow. i played music from Rennasaicne all thew ay to modern and not I nor any other person i ever seen play it ever held it there.
Who cares how holding it… in that small excerpt we can hear that she can play her instrument and play it well. She could be holding it between her teeth if she prefers. People like her, who think differently, makes things evolve rather than being told how to do something and never ask questions. Sheep and leaders…